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He wrote: “For all his intelligence, wit and fearlessness, this site suspects that Rees-Mogg as leader would be unable to overleap the legend of the nanny and the poshness and the supposed out-of-touchness, and cut through in the marginal seats, especially in the Midlands and the North, that the Tories need to win their first full majority since 1987.

“So in the absence of anyone that party members find convincing, Rees-Mogg is a gainer from what is essentially a protest vote.”

Yesterday the father of six appeared on the BBC to try and dampen the speculation he harbours ambitions to be in Downing Street.

His case wasn’t helped however by the producers filming his interview on the Daily Politics in front of a fake backdrop outside Number 10.

Asked if he was surprised to have been linked with the leadership Mr Rees-Mogg replied: “I’m as astonished as you are.

“It’s all jolly August stuff, and now we’re in September, I imagine it will calm down.”